Well, Xie Wen had still been guessing who the newcomer was based on, but the moment he heard that familiar line, he knew...
Academy City's strongest Level 0, Index's keeper, and the wielder of Imagine Breaker-Kamijou Touma.
But...
Did the Monster Hunter world have Imagine Breaker too? How exactly would it work?
Xie Wen thought back. There were certainly nullification effects in the Monster Hunter games, such as wind pressure negation, heat negation, paralysis negation, and so on.
But those were limited to the games.
In his Inherited Memories, equipment made from monster materials could reduce some damage from those effects, but no matter how much it reduced, it could never grant complete immunity like in the games.
That sort of thing was only possible in a game...
Of course, now that they were in the One Piece world, eating a Logia Devil Fruit of the corresponding element was another option.
Yet the black-and-white cat before him was wearing nothing but an ordinary white short-sleeved shirt. No matter how he looked at it, there was no way he could erase every supernatural ability with a touch like the original Touma.
As for coming to the One Piece world...
Surely his right paw couldn't have the same properties as Seastone?
Just as Xie Wen propped up his chin and pondered, Little Plushie, perched on his shoulder, suddenly spoke. "This new big brother feels a lot like Bennett back in the village, meow... That's so strange. Why does Klee feel that way, meow?"
(=ω=)
Yes, as expected of another cat "favored by fortune," Klee Meow had spotted Touma Meow's defining trait at a glance.
But Xie Wen remembered that, aside from being unlucky, this wielder of Imagine Breaker also had another nickname: the Girl Grabber...
Did that mean his Palico team would